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Subject: [SECC] NAQP CW AA4LR SO
From: aa4lr@radio.org (Bill Coleman AA4LR)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:51:09 -0400
                     North America QSO Party - CW
                    
Call: AA4LR
Operator(s): AA4LR
Station: AA4LR

Class: SO
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 7.7
 

Summary:
 Band     QSOs  Mults
----------------------
  160:      2      2
   80:     52     20
   40:     77     28
   20:     70     29
   15:     34     12
   10:      4      4
----------------------
Total:    239     95  =  22,705

Club/Team: SECC #1

Comments:


Equipment:
Kenwood TS-430S running 90 watts
20+ year old CMOS keyer

Antennas:
R7000 at 8 feet
80m doublet at 25 feet

Comments:

While I still don't have my tower up yet, I managed to improve my 
personal best
scores. Caught K9AY in the first 10 minutes, and he moved me through all 6
bands. That's a first for me. Of course, Gary is only about 2 miles from 
me, so
its almost cheating. Later I remembered that I forgot to change antennas 
during
the move. I bet Cushcraft doesn't realise the R7000 works on 6 bands....

The "Golden Ears" award belongs to AA4S. Ron pulled my 160m signal out of 
the
mud for my only other 160m QSO. Considering I used the R7000 on 160m 
(with no
tuner), I was impressed that anyone could hear me.

Mostly S & P, but I did manage to do a lot of CQing. My apologies for my
grotty, error-laden sending -- I'm out of practice with the paddles. My 
keyer
also appeared to randomly speed up a slow down by a couple of wpm, I'm 
not sure
why.

10m was disappointing, and things were slow early on, so I took a break at
2030Z. With the obligatory dinner break at 2330Z and not being able to 
keep my
eyes open past 0400Z, I only managed 7.7 total hours.

Looking forward to the January NAQP with a tower and decent antennas.


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Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@radio.org
Quote: "Boot, you transistorized tormentor! Boot!"
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